The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-09-09
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

DO not let plants bear seed unless
you need il.
Pretty country homes are becom-
ing more common than they used to be.
TO clean knives. small po-
tato, dip in the brick dust and rub
hem.
In warm weather the hogs should
be literally supplied with pure clean
water, or disease may be the result.
An ink that will write on glass is
made from ammonium fouride dis
solved in water and mixed with three
Zines its weight of barium sulphate.
Boiled Frosting.-One cup of gran
ulated sugar and five tablespoonfuls of
milk, boil four or five minutes, then
stir till cold and put on a cool cake
Household.
-Apiarists agree that the bees, if
left to themselves, will complete from
seventy to ninety per cent. of the Sec
tons given them, and may by forcing
be made to complete them all.
Blackberry Pudding.-A pint of
-four, pint of warm water, pinch Of
salt; mix -four, water and salt thor
oughly; add one quart of blackberries
the last thing. Put in pudding bag
well Toured and boil one hour.-Bos-
ton Budget.
-Jumble.-Rub to a cream a pound
of butter and a pound of sugar; mix
with it one and one-half pounds of
flour and four eggs; roll the cakes in
powdered sugar; lay them on fat but
tered tins, and bake in quick oven
Indianapolis Sentinel.
Apples and Bacon.-Use tart APP
plies and slice them without pairing.
Fry thin slices of breakfast bacon:
when done, but not brown, remove
them to a hot dish, fry the apples in the
fat, and when brown drain off the fat,
and serve with the bacon Cincinnati
Times.
-Marbled Veal.-Take some cold
veal, season, splice and beat in a NOR
tar; skin boiled veal tongue, pound
to paste, adding its weight in butter;
put some of the veal and some of the
tongue in layers in a kettle; press
down and pour clarified butter over the
top. Let cool, and cut in slices.-Er.
change.
Lay ears of corn in a pan and roast
in the oven until nearly black and re-
duced to charcoal Chop small and
scatter among straw or hay on the hen
house or barn floor, and let the chickens
scratch for it, which they will do as
eagerly as beggar children scramble
for coin. Hens need exercise and
amusement, and the above will furnish
both, as well as healthful nutriment.-
Troy Times.
Fish Pie.-Boil one quart potatoes
in boiling water and salt. Soak one
quart of stale bread in cold water, and
wiring it dry in a clean towel; season
it well with pepper, salt and a table
spoonful of chopped parsley. Cut two
pounds of Goldfish in small slices and
lay it in cold, sailed water When the
potatoes are done, peel them, mash
them through q cOlander, and season
with pepper and salt. Put the fish and
bread in alternate layers in a pudding
dish, make top crust of the potatoes,
and bake the pie an hour in moderate
oven.-F'arna, Field and StOck1nan.
E. W. Stewart says that fiaxseed is
preventive of disease food medi.
cine. Its oil is very soothing to the
stomach and intestines, and is also
rich in food for muscle and bone. One
of the best ways to use faxseed is te
boil it in six times its bulk of water til
it forms a jelly then mix a little o;
this jelly with wheat bran and yor
have an excellent food for growing 6
pig. This is also good food for the
brood sow, promoting her yield OF
milk. If used in this way, one pound
of faxseed is mixed with ten pounds
of bran. Pigs very soon get a liking
for the taste of fiaxseed.-BOSto1a Globe.